The Meaning of the Title of One Hundred Years of Solitude

Because this book describes the life of the Boondia family for seven generations, the names of the characters in the book are naturally and meaningfully repeated. The title of the book is based on One Hundred Years of Solitude, which aims to prove that loneliness is like a spinning wheel, endless. The protagonist in the book keeps repeating the strikingly similar fate, which is the curse that this family can't escape.

The title "Centennial" is the process in which the author imagines history and life as a cycle when describing the centenary history of the Buntia family and Macondo. This century, from scratch, from scratch, has come a long way. This idea of circular theory runs through the plot structure and character description of the book, and its intention is obviously to show that the century-old history of Latin America has not got rid of the predicament of poverty, backwardness and ignorance.

The second meaning of the title is "loneliness". Marquez saw that the misfortunes and disasters in Latin America have both external and internal reasons, especially human spiritual reasons. He attributed this common problem in spiritual life to loneliness. Although the members of the Bountia family in his works are different in appearance and personality, their loneliness is their commonality, which is passed down from generation to generation and dominates their actions.

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The Creation Background and Influence of One Hundred Years of Solitude

During the 70 years from 1830 to the end of 19, dozens of civil wars broke out in Colombia, killing hundreds of thousands of people. The book describes this historical fact in a large space, and it is condensed through the legendary career of the protagonist in the book. The hypocrisy of politicians, the cruelty of rulers, the blind obedience and ignorance of the people and so on. They are all very vivid.

Before the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez was not widely known outside the Latin American literary world. One Hundred Years of Solitude shocked Latin American literary circles and the whole Spanish world as soon as it came out, and was quickly translated into many languages. Marquez also became a famous world-class writer.

The story of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" takes place in the fictional town of Macondo (Marquez called william faulkner a mentor and was obviously deeply influenced by it), describing the ups and downs of seven generations of Buendia family in the past hundred years, and the deep-rooted loneliness in culture and human nature.

Its content involves all aspects of social and family life, which can be said to be a concentrated projection of Latin American history and culture. One Hundred Years of Solitude has a unique style, which is both grand and fantastic. A few strokes in the roughness outline the bloody cruelty of decades of civil war; Delicate place describes the suffering of passion in love, such as the desire to sue; The past and future of the ghost world are unpredictable. Light and heavy, both, is recognized as the most representative works of magical realism.